>They can go without food or water for more than 30 years,

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>>9108879
Science is a lie... Also apparently they can live in space
https://caldiptera.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/7/
They're cute hey

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>>9108879
Yes.
Actually.
Yes we did.
We kept the bastards in suspended animation.
We burned them. They survived beyond 100 degrees in short bursts when dry.
We cut them in half when wet. They lived for months.
They are hardier than wolverines.
Mini mldrich horrors with a single cyclopedic eye and STILL not as complicated as this microscopic azathoth. Lovecraft was worried about space monsters.
He should have become a micro-biologist.

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>>9108901
>be me
>be happy little microbe
>suddenly a tentacle catches me
>dragged by tentacle into giant many mouthed monster with thousands of screaming air holes
>it breaks me down while stealing my genetic code and adding it to it's own
No mouth yet I must scream
>it begins breaking down info
>it adds my abilities to it's own like a monstrous version of Kirby.
>it steals my special ability.
There is a God.
His name is Oxytricha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0Ta_zc2Jo

What if we insert their DNA into humans? Can we then survive 30 years without food and water ?

>>9108916
Yes, but we'd become very small and homely.

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>>9108916
It can only survive this long in a freeze-dry sleep.
Yes.
Yes we could copy it.
Would probably copy macro-fauna dna instead that can do the same thing since closer to human.
E.g this wood frog.
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>>9108879
If we can copy some of the amazing abilities of this animal, we could send space travelers on extended trip and not have to feed or water them.

>>9108916
You'd have to be effectively braindead.

>>9109092
That's half the population. So at least we have test subjects.... For science of course

What if we grew it to the average size of an actual bear? Would it docile eating herbivore? I would be a terrifying unkillable carnivore?

Could it kill all life on earth?

>>9109139
It would collapse in on itself.

>>9108916
Kind of related:
https://www.nature.com/news/tardigrade-protein-helps-human-dna-withstand-radiation-1.20648#/b1